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JOHANNESBURG: Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping were both absent as leaders from the Brics group of emerging economies started a three-day summit in South Africa on Tuesday. Putin's travel to Johannesburg was complicated by an outstanding International Criminal Court warrant for his arrest over the abduction of children from Ukraine. His participation as the bloc named for member nations Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa opened its first in-person meeting since before the COVID-19 pandemic came in the form of a 17-minute prerecorded...